{"id":57875,"date":"2022-01-16T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T17:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=57875"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:17:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:17:55","slug":"users-regard-apple-watch-as-a-medical-tool-and-worry-about-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/users-regard-apple-watch-as-a-medical-tool-and-worry-about-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Users Regard Apple Watch As a Medical Tool and Worry About Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37962\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 250px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/09\/lindsey_rosman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/09\/lindsey_rosman-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"lindsey-rosman-apple-devices-interview-appleinsider\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/09\/lindsey_rosman-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/09\/lindsey_rosman-301x376.jpg 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2019\/09\/lindsey_rosman.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Lindsey A. Rosman, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The continued addition of health and fitness features to Apple Watch, Fitbit and other devices, has led to wearers treating them as medical tools \u2014 with some over-worrying about their readings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/lindsey-a-rosman-phd\/\">Lindsay A. Rosman<\/a>, PhD, assistant professor in the division of cardiology, studies the effects of devices on anxiety and \u00a0was recently interviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/01\/13\/users-regard-apple-watch-fitness-devices-as-medical-tools-and-worry-about-results\">AppleInsider.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a researcher, I think it&#8217;s a fantastic tool,&#8221; Dr. Rosman said. &#8220;As a clinician in a cardiology clinic in particular, I think it opens the door to a lot of questions and concerns from patients that are currently being unaddressed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/01\/13\/users-regard-apple-watch-fitness-devices-as-medical-tools-and-worry-about-results\">Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The continued addition of health and fitness features to Apple Watch, Fitbit and other devices, has led to wearers treating them as medical tools \u2014 with some over-worrying about their readings. 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Rosman, PhD, assistant professor in the division of cardiology, studies the effects of devices on anxiety and \u00a0was recently interviewed by AppleInsider. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/users-regard-apple-watch-as-a-medical-tool-and-worry-about-results\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Users Regard Apple Watch As a Medical Tool and Worry About Results\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":37962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[86,2],"tags":[631],"class_list":["post-57875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardiology","category-news","tag-631","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Users Regard Apple Watch As a Medical Tool and Worry About Results | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/users-regard-apple-watch-as-a-medical-tool-and-worry-about-results\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Users Regard Apple Watch As a Medical Tool and Worry About Results | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The continued addition of health and fitness features to Apple Watch, Fitbit and other devices, has led to wearers treating them as medical tools \u2014 with some over-worrying about their readings. 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